After 30years in the job it's nice being retired and not having to work Xmas day. Lost count of how many times when the kids were young that I had to go to work.That's one part of the job I don't miss.

Thank you to all of you who work over the Christmas period, especially Christmas Day, whatever you do.Respect for Redvalleyeast. The father of my closest business colleague was a firefighter, so I have an idea how demanding that can be.

Apologies for asking, but I live in my own little bubble and am I interested (being an office worker and having never worked on Christmas Day)

I run a small family retail business, but the whole time I have Bern doing that I have been a part-time fire-fighter. Not a proper one like @redvalleyeast etc. This is the first Christmas day in 24 years I haven't missed part of the festivities (although still 50 minutes left).